Carbon nanostructure created that is stronger than diamonds

Science Daily  April 13, 2020
An international team of researchers (USA – UC Irvine, UC Santa Barbara, industry, Germany) has succeeded in conceptualizing and fabricating the material which consists of closely connected closed-cell plates instead of the cylindrical trusses common in such structures over the past few decades. They have shown that the design improves the average performance of cylindrical beam-based architectures by up to 639 percent in strength and 522 percent in rigidity. One of the group’s innovations was to include tiny holes in the plates that could be used to remove excess resin from the finished material…read more. Open Access TECHNICAL ARTICLE